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247. 



Length $ 20-22 in. ; wing 12.25-13.25 in. ; 

 above glossy black ; head slaty grey ; wing 

 quills black, banded witli slate grey ; tail 

 black with 3 bands of ashy grvy and tipped 

 ^vith same ; below Avliite ; bill blackish ; 

 feet yelloAV. 



Leptodon palUalns (Temm.), PI. Col., i., pi. 

 204 (1823). [Brazil, type in Brit. ]\Ius.] 

 [= L. cayenntnsin, auct. plur.] 

 Cayenne Kite. 



Brazil, Peru, 

 Guiana to 

 Centr. Amerj 



Gen. LXXII. GYPOICTINIA Kaup (1847 . 



Bill not toothed ; head crested ; loral space 

 feathered ; wings reacliing to end of tail ; greater 

 part of tarsus bare in front. 



Length 24 ; wing 19 ; tail 8.5 in. ; general 

 Ijluniage above and beloAv blackish, browner 

 on scapulars and more rufous on rump ; crest 

 and nape tawny iiifous with black centres to 

 the feathers ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 rufous, with black shaft-lines ; tail ashy grey 

 above, whitish near base and below ; lesser 

 wing-coveits and secondaries margined Avith 

 ashy grey ; primaries ashy white at base. 

 248. Gypoirlinia melanosterna melanosterna Literior of 

 (Gould), P.Z.8., 1840, p. 102 (1841). [N.S. N.S. Wales, 

 Wales, type in Mus. Philad. Acad.] S. Australia. 



Blackbreasted Buzzaid. 



" Differs from G. m. melanosterna in lacking 

 the black on head and breast." 

 248a. Gypoktinia melanosterna decepta Math., Nov. W. Australia, 

 Zool., xviii., p. 250 (1912). [Parry's Creek, Northern 

 N.W. Australia.] Territory. 



Northern Buzzard. 



Gen. LXXIll. ELANUS Savigny (1809). 



Tarsus feathered for nearly two-thirds of its length 

 in front ; claws without groove on under surface. 



Sexes nearly similar in size ; length ad. about 

 13 ; wing 10.15-11.20 ; tail 5.16 in. ; above 

 ashy grey, lighter on head ; forehead, eyebrow, 

 and face white ; feathers round eye black ; 



